Word: smithing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rolls up” to Smith’s office for final review, his purview is much too vast to allow much attention to details. “I did not go through all the different proposals from all the different units. That would be crazy,” Smith said in an interview last week, about proposals for cuts sent in by units over the past few months. Instead, he focuses on recommendations flagged as “affecting multiple units” or with far-reaching consequences...
...leader of over 20,000 people, Smith is less of a micro-manager, and more of a communicator—working to present a coherent message for a disparate community...
...After the University learned that the endowment had fallen a precipitous 22 percent in December, Smith devoted the bulk of the two subsequent Faculty meetings to explaining the looming budgetary shortfall with powerpoints and hand-written figures—a function that professors came to expect in their dean...
...helm, the honeymoon phase has passed, and there is growing impatience at the vagueness “reshaping” has come to represent. “There are a lot of open questions at this point,” Hamburger says. “I wish Dean Smith well...
...Smith needed advice...